How much does Croen Foundation Inc give?

Croen Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $253,766 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Croen Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (12%).

Who are Croen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($280k), Acts Community Development Corporation ($158k), United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($90k).

Does Croen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Croen Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Croen Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.

Where is Croen Foundation Inc based?

Croen Foundation Inc is based in FL.

Croen Foundation Inc

Croen Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Croen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$254k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$513kArts & Culture$415kHuman Services$244kEducation$224kHousing & Shelter$173kYouth Development$172kHealth$129kCivil Rights$81kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $99k
$10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION	$50,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE	$42,750
ACTS HOUSING INC	$25,000
SECUREFUTURES	$15,000
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC	$12,016
UNITED WAY GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY	$10,000
JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE	$7,500
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$7,500
COLLEGE POSSIBLE MILWAUKEE	$7,000
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE	$5,000
COALITION FOR YOUTH CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN	$5,000
NORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL	$5,000
SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION	$5,000
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 47 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+69%

Still filing today

81%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +91%
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +504%
CP
COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +79%

Funded once

SF
SECURED FUTURES INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +69%
LC
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
one grant, 2021 · $5k
JOURNEY HOUSE INC
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -5%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education

Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture

The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education

Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc

Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.

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Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment

Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/46

Grantees still filing

32/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$502,600Other$453,146Arts & Culture$351,250Human Services$254,450Education$211,000Housing & Shelter$172,500Health$113,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI50.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Croen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Croen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home